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Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Tyrannus forficatus

A summer resident that nests in Arkansas. Found in 58 of 75 counties, across 2 habitats.

Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
58 of 75 counties
Habitats
2

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
58 of 75 counties
Habitats
2
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Arkansas 2

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 2

Prairies and grasslands

Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.

SummerArkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland; Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie; West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

SummerDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field
Other habitats in its models (29)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas. Those recorded in Arkansas first, the rest by region.

In Arkansas 1

  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer.
Elsewhere in the South (9)
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer.
  • Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Summer.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Summer.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
Midwest (4)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer.
Land cover and other classes (15)
  • Developed, Low Intensity Summer.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Summer.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
  • Recently Burned Summer.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Summer.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer.
  • South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Summer.
  • Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Summer.
  • Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

  • Summer: nests here, in 58 of 75 counties.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Arkansas, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 100

Plants 888

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Arkansas

Prairies and grasslands

Birds 48

Plants 187

All of prairies and grasslands in Arkansas

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources